Qualcomm
Principal SOC Architect, AI Accelerators (Multiple Locations
$200K–$300K
San Diego, California +4 · On-site · Principal · Full-time · Posted Oct 20, 2026
- Location
- San Diego, California
Austin, Texas
Oregon - Remote
Raleigh, North Carolina
Santa Clara, California - Experience
- 10+ years in hardware design, testing, and commercialization; 3+ years in datacenter-related products. Minimum Qualifications separately state Bachelor's degree and 8+ years, Master's degree and 7+ years, or PhD and 6+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.
- Education
- Master's degree or equivalent in Engineering or a related field. Minimum Qualifications also list a Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in Science, Engineering, or a related field.
About the job
Architects SoCs and defines system-level requirements for Qualcomm’s next-generation datacenter AI products, focusing on security, reliability and serviceability (RAS), and/or virtualization.
What you'll do
- Engage customers and ODMs to understand datacenter trends and determine hardware and software requirements.
- Analyze current AI server deployments and architect enhancements for next-generation AI products, from card and server through rack level.
- Design SoC architecture for RAS, virtualization, and/or security, including reliability, serviceability, availability, client isolation, or confidential computing.
What they ask for
- 10+ years of hardware design, testing, and commercialization experience.
- 3+ years of experience working on datacenter-related products, such as servers or accelerators.
- In-depth datacenter knowledge, including security, RAS, virtualization, telemetry, power, cooling, lifecycle, and deployments; good knowledge of scale-up and scale-out architectures.
- Willingness to work in a high-caliber international/multi-site team.
Nice to have
- Server SoC security experience, especially Confidential Compute; participation in OCP Security Forum or Confidential Compute Forum is a plus.
- Experience with server SoC RAS infrastructure, PCIe protocols, or Ethernet protocols.
Pay
$200,000.00 - $300,000.00 USD base salary
Tools
PCIe, SRIOV, SIOV, IDE, TDISP, Ethernet, VMs
AI focus
Architects SoCs for next-generation datacenter AI products, including RAS, virtualization, and/or security capabilities.
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